Efficiency and connectivity have been at the forefront of Microsoft’s efforts to update products lately. Teams in particular has been at center stage, so it saw the majority of updates made, but other exciting features and functionalities were added across the other Microsoft 365 products as well. Here is a recap of some of the best new features that were added to Microsoft 365 products this summer:

After a decade of investing in improvements, Microsoft has announced that pricing changes will be made for enterprise and commercial subscriptions of Microsoft 365 packages. Smaller price increases have been made over the years, but this announcement marks the first “substantive” pricing increase in the 10 years that these products have been on the market. The pricing changes will reflect the value of added features, functionalities, and elevated standards of quality—especially as so many new features and product upgrades have been made in the last year and a half alone.

A major benefit of implementing Microsoft business applications like Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365 is the interconnectivity between applications and data. Microsoft Excel is currently one of the most popular software applications available for viewing and manipulating data.

For users of Dynamics 365 Business Central, the integration between Business Central and Microsoft Excel provides the ability to view and edit financial data from Business Central directly in Excel and import it back into Business Central.

This is an update to a previous blog detailing the default opening behavior of Office 365 app files in OneDrive. The process has largely changed since the original blog post. The purpose of this blog is to show how to set OneDrive up to automatically open Office 365 files in the desktop app, rather than the online app.